The websites for four regional climate centers funded by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, returned to service Monday after an outage linked to expired contracts, according to service notifications. The sites shut last week after a funding lapse compromised NOAA’s contracts with the research universities that operate the centers, which provide custom weather analysis tools across 27 states. The Southern Regional Climate Center, housed at Texas A&M University, is receiving “stopgap” funding to restore service, director John Nielsen-Gammon said in an interview Monday, with a full-year contract extension expected to come sometime in the next several weeks.

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